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Looking at the world through a microscope 🧵

1. Terrifying photo of an ant's face This picture is an award-winning close-up photo of an ant, captured by Lithuanian photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas. The Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition seeks to “recognize excellence in photography through the microscope”.
2. The human eye looks like a black hole

This stunning photo by Suren Manvelyan reveals the depth of the cornea; behind it lies the iris, the colored part of the eye that regulates the size of the pupil. Image
3. Mushrooms release millions of microscopic spores into the wind to reproduce. Video by Villareal C. Jojo.

4. Grains of salt under a microscope Image
5. Real-time oxygen production on a leaf

6. A cat’s tongue under a microscope looks like it’s made of other smaller tongues Image
7. Zooming into a leaf

📹macrofying

8. Macro shot of a chameleon eye Image
9. This is what a pen looks like under an electron microscope

10. Microscopic look at a bee stinger vs. the point of a needle Image
11. Our white blood cells attacking a virus
12. Close-up shots of spider eyes captured by Spanish macro photographer Javier Rupérez. Image
13. Zooming into a cup of coffee

📹macrofying

14. Kidney stone surface as seen in an electron microscope Image
15. The needles of a tattoo machine injecting ink into ballistic gel

16. This is what a hole in the skin looks like after a needle punctures it, as observed under a scanning electron microscope. Image
17. This is what it looks like when a pill dissolves in water

18. This is shark skin under electron microscope Image
19. This is what smoke looks like in Macro

20. Paper cuts are surprisingly painful because, at a microscopic level, paper has a rough texture.

While a knife creates a clean cut, paper behaves like a saw blade, inflicting more damage to cells and nerve endings. Image
21. Macro photo of lizard skin Image
22. A matchstick igniting by the friction surface of the box

23. Microscopic image of a tapeworm head Image
24. Zooming into a hand

📹macrofying

25. This is another image of an ant's face, captured by photographer Abdul Latif using a mirrorless camera.

This shot also highlights the insect's eyes, while the first photo in this thread only shows the antennae holes. Image
26. Look at this microscopic tardigrade going for a swim through some algae.

Tardigrades are tiny micro-animals first described by German zoologist J. Goeze in 1773. They were named Tardigrada (slow steppers) by Italian biologist L. Spallanzani in 1776.

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